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A portrait of slain separatist leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko hangs outside the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theatre on September 2.
A portrait of slain separatist leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko hangs outside the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theatre on September 2.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

-- EDITOR'S NOTE: We have started a new Ukraine Live Blog as of September 3, 2018. You can find it here.

-- Tens of thousands of people gathered on September 2 in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine to mourn a top rebel leader who was recently killed in a bomb attack.

-- Prominent Ukrainian historian Mykola Shityuk has been found dead in his home city of Mykolaiv, police said on September 2.​

-- Ukraine says it has imprisoned the man it accused of being recruited by Russia’s secret services to organize a murder plot against self-exiled Russian reporter and Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko.

-- Ukraine and Russia are trading blame for the killing of a top separatist leader in eastern Ukraine.

-- Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the head of the head of the breakaway separatist entity known as the Donetsk People’s Republic, was killed in an explosion at a cafe in Donetsk on August 31.

-- The United States is ready to widen arms supplies to Ukraine to help build up the country's naval and air defense forces in the face of continuing Russian support for eastern separatists, the U.S. special envoy for Ukraine told The Guardian.

-- The spiritual head of the worldwide Orthodox Church in Istanbul has hosted Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill for talks on Ukraine's bid to split from the Russian church, a move strongly opposed by Moscow.

*Time stamps on the blog refer to local time in Ukraine

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Here's an item from our news desk on the cyberattacks today:

Ukraine Cyberpolice Chief Says Ukraine Hit By 'Badrabbit' Malware

Odesa has one of Ukraine's biggest airports (file photo)
Odesa has one of Ukraine's biggest airports (file photo)

The chief of Ukraine's cyberpolice has said the country was attacked on October 24 by malware called BadRabbit, but was barely affected.

Earlier in the day, Ukraine's Odesa airport said it had tightened security measures after being targeted by a cyberattack, while the subway system in Kyiv also reported a hack on its payment system.

Cyberpolice Chief Serhiy Demedyuk, when asked whether the malware BadRabbit was used in the attacks, said by text message "yes, correct."

The airport said in a statement, "We report that the IT system of Odesa international airport has been hit by a hacker attack. All services of the airport are working in a stricter mode."

Odesa has one of Ukraine's biggest airports, connecting the Black Sea port city with many airports in Ukraine, the former Soviet Union, western Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Also on October 24, the Kyiv subway wrote on Facebook that its computer system had been attacked by hackers and informed clients that card payment for services was temporarily impossible.

With reporting by Reuters and Current Time TV
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